Re: [PATCH] I2C: busses: Do not print error message in syslog if no ACK received

[Marek Vasut <marex-ynQEQJNshbs@public.gmane.org>]

Dear Andreas Werner,

> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 07:00:59PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > Dear Andreas Werner,
> > 
> > > Using the i2c-eg20t driver and call i2cdetect or probe on the bus,
> > > the driver will print a lot of error messages if there was no ACK
> > > received.
> > > 
> > > i2cdetect normally print a table with all the available devices. If
> > > there is no device on the address, the table will be empty.
> > > Currently with the i2c-eg20t driver, the table is not visible because
> > > the error messages destroy the table.
> > > 
> > > Error message: pch_i2c_getack return -71
> > > 
> > > This patch prevent the driver to print the messages to syslog if debug
> > > is not set.
> > > 
> > > Tested on Intel Atom E6xx and Eg20t Chipset.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Andreas Werner <wernerandy-Mmb7MZpHnFY@public.gmane.org>
> > > ---
> > > 
> > >  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-eg20t.c | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-eg20t.c
> > > b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-eg20t.c index 0f37529..b10c651 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-eg20t.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-eg20t.c
> > > @@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ static s32 pch_i2c_getack(struct i2c_algo_pch_data
> > > *adap) reg_val = ioread32(p + PCH_I2CSR) & PCH_GETACK;
> > > 
> > >  	if (reg_val != 0) {
> > > 
> > > -		pch_err(adap, "return%d\n", -EPROTO);
> > > +		pch_dbg(adap, "return%d\n", -EPROTO);
> > > 
> > >  		return -EPROTO;
> > >  	
> > >  	}
> > 
> > I'd just kill the pch_err() line altogether:
>   But why? I think there a few pch_err message which are interesting to
> have in syslog, without building the dbg driver.

See below for explanation why this one particular pch_err() line can go. Sorry 
if I was not clear enough, I meant only this one particular pch_err() line, NOT 
all of them.

> 
> > if (reg_val)
> > 
> > 	return -EPROTO;
> > 
> > That is because if you look at the only caller of this function, which is
> > pch_i2c_wait_for_check_xfer(), you will see that at the only place where
> > pch_i2c_getack() is called there is already pch_dbg():
> > 
> > 369         if (pch_i2c_getack(adap)) {
> > 370                 pch_dbg(adap, "Receive NACK for slave address"
> > 371                         "setting\n");
> > 372                 return -EIO;
> > 373         }
> > 
> > btw. (idea for subsequent patch) this pch_dbg() should be fixed to be a
> > one- liner /wrt the text so we can grep for the error messages. Such
> > text arg should never be split in multiple lines in kernel.
> 
>   Ok i will wait a few days for further comments to this patch and then
>   i will resend the patch with a one liner message.

Sure, wait at least for Wolfram's consent on this please ;-)

Best regards,
Marek Vasut